We are waiting for the drama. We expect the drama. It’s not a drama. It’s a game. Construct in which we play games.
The breath is a reaction, the word is a reaction, also the silence is a reaction. Is it a situation, where nothing needs to be
said? Now? But we expected. The drama, the speed, the shock. The shock is only a myth.
Online stereotype, time and water.

Night’s sleep to expire on 11:30PM. On the road that should have been routine. But it is an exception. So far nothing is confirmed. Sea level is closed and we have no control even over the relax combined with summer.
“Some passengers phones were still ringing.”

Frantically hunt for changing what is new has always been a pleasure condition. Collectors of adventure here and now craving to become the ones, they always wanted to be. Craving for sleep, nutella pie and mask removal. Mimicry, TV and spiral… They are not only accumulating things and symbols, but they consume even things, what has not yet acquired tangible embodiment. ,,Buy and enjoy, as prophets say. ”

Myokymia

HD Video, sound

Umprum, Prague, 2016.

Myokymia is the latin translation of “wince in the eye”. This name is a starting point of how to interpret this movie. The plot is situated in the area of emerging residential area, in which prevails mysterious game between characters and spaces. The viewer is left uncertain from the beginning to finish. Spaces are unclear zones, that transform their place in another. Relationships are changing to alienation, home to uncertain space of the building.

Mazúr in his minimalist videos strives to search the theme of memory at different levels through microstories with autobiographical underplay. There are present indications expressing the authors feeling of mental emptying in several areas of modern society, especially in the socio-cultural and public sphere. Despite the fact that in its reflexive works resound existential undertones, feelings of uncertainty or doubt, there are not missing intensive emotional and spiritual aspects.

Mazúr interprets carrying topic of memory with references to the phenomenon of time in the short video The Boy (2014). Leitmotiv linear, gradually dramatized microstory, which takes place on the abandoned highway in the mountainous landscape, is a confrontation of the past and present in the life of an individual. Mazúr confronts his childhood represented by the figure of a little boy with the presence of an adult male, which embodies, but with intentionally veiled identity. The point of this video is a review of his personal and intellectual history, with which he gets over by burning books, which is heading to some kind of cleaning of the memory and releasing the space for new challenges and levels of leadership. The typical symbols of this work are distilled visual images free of any unnecessary elements that correspond with similarly sober sound, furthermore it includes inventive detail of boy’s face divided in half, what can we read as a symbol of a fragmented entity, video is also interesting with the moment of image rotating in 90 degrees.

The Hide (2014), which again emphasizes the theme of memory, but this time he shifted the interpretation to the metaphor of archeology in terms of uncovering and burial of memory traces and memories. The whole scene is concentrated on the large hill in the country, which is a former garbage dump. The camera captures him from aerial view and in its epicenter, which is dug pit, watching the little boy with his bare hands exploring the memory of space with possible links to the individual, collective, cultural or historical memory.

Past

Hd video, sound, 08:28 min.

Awards

film PAST (2012) price Ex aequo at 1st International Festival of experimental film and digital arts in Bratislava in 2012 in the section on experimental films. According to John Adamov, one of the members of the festival jury, ‘sophistication, unity and appeal of visual style of Mazur´s film were highly evaluated, as well as the strength of the testimony of a man’s own mind and consciousness in the dark.

,,Mazúr´s film carries autobiographical features, draws on his own life, which are elements of narrative and these are combined with fiction aspects of his biography in a possible future. The story thus anticipates the development of mature men in middle age, taking places for several years to come. Experimenting with means of expression of black and white film, Mazúr closer and truer expressed story of a man, spending his middle aged crisis. The film deliberately omits any comments, dialogues, it is based only on the value of the emotional power of the visual images. Experimenting with different shots with surprising points of view, Mazúr alternates the interiors with exteriors, he flirts with light and darkness and with their nuances. With being immersed in the heart of the main character, he lets give psychological gusts of an adult man who is trying to cope with the complicated situation of the partner relationship within the tangle of personal, family, work and existential sessions. Mazúr only suggests specific situation as a cue of the story, thereby he activates audiences and they develop their own associations, open reading of narrative of the film and to tell its story lines.
We can realize that ambivalence, which Mazúr applied in his video film intentionally, it is typical not only for experimental film – in addition to the time and spatial discontinuity, it is characterized by a high degree of self-reflection, formal experimentation, exploring new and original standards as the basis for copyright of the manuscript – but it is also typical in the ambiguous interpretation of the story. Causality is replaced by parallelism and logic of metaphor and the film through them, pronounced ‘ message ‘. These aspects are very stimulating for reflexive and emotional involvement of the viewing audience”.